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"Yesterday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration decreed an early death to one of its flagship missions and most celebrated successes, the Hubble Space Telescope.

In a midday meeting at the Goddard Space Flight Center, two days after President Bush ordered NASA to redirect its resources toward human exploration of the moon and Mars, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told the space telescope's managers that there would be no more shuttle visits to maintain it." (From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

well, the good news is Hubble's replacement, the James Webb Telescope, should be in put into orbit in 2012. It is much more powerful and efficient than the great Hubble, so just imagine the how far back into time we'll be able to see then and how clearly too

But sad news indeed.

--------------------As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

I think perhaps that is the most short-sighted statement I have seen posted here. Adaptive optics help negate the effects of density flux in air, but does not illiminate the effects completely . Put a space telescope with a decent apature size and it will blow away adaptive optics every single time. Adaptive optics does nothing at all to help with wavelengths that are absorbed by air.

Things could be alot worse. I hate to say it, but it's not like Bush put a "CLOSED" sign on NASA, he is in fact doing in the opposite...giving it presidential support, something that NASA needs because Congress isn't such a huge fan of non-terrestrial issues.

--------------------"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-Al Einstein

im all for the space program, i think its really neat, and im glad that the govt is supporting the final fronteir and all... but will going to mars solve starvation/poverty in the US? and where does george doubleyeh plan on getting these billions of dollars?

im interested in a space guy explaining what we will get out of all this money being spent, wether technologically or whatever. i have a feeling its gonna be alot of "haha we got here first" bullshit, like when we "went to the moon" which im still skeptical about.

--------------------"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-Al Einstein

Actually, I think Bush's planned expansion of the Space Program is a great idea too, and one of the few things he's done that I can agree with. However, with the Federal Budget $500 billion in the hole, I seriously doubt we can afford it. Besides, I think it's just election year grandstanding meant to garner a few extra votes.